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Preferred Business Relationships
Mean Value for LSA Members

LSA has established relationships with these businesses and organizations for the benefit of all of LSA's members. You are encouraged to click on the web links below to learn more about the products and services they offer. General questions or comments may be directed to the Bruce Cropf, VP, Finance and Business Development at 410-230-2705 or resources@lutheranservices.org.

Click on the logos below for the general websites. Write or call the contacts below for LSA-specific savings.


 

AdvantageTrust, a division of HealthTrust Purchasing Group

Group Purchasing Organization (GPO):
Members can purchase office supplies, express shipping, food and numerous other categories from contracted suppliers at prices typically reserved for Fortune 100 companies. LSA affiliates can join this large GPO through the LSA PurchasingPoint program.

To join the PurchasingPoint Program online, contact Bruce Cropf for the invitation code:

Bruce Cropf, VP Finance and Business Development
Lutheran Services in America
Phone: 410-230-2705
BCropf@lutheranservices.org

For more information, please contact:

Mary Starr, AVP
AdvantageTrust Purchasing Group
Phone: 847-592-7860
mstarr@advantagetrustpg.com

Read how one LSA member benefits from this program

 

 

Bisbee & Associates

This company provides energy audits and recommendations regarding the ROI of certain capital investments focused on energy efficiency.

 

 

CBiz

As an LSA member, another cost reduction tool available to you is LSA's Group Life & Disability offering through Lincoln Financial Group. This program offers guaranteed savings for groups of 10 - 500 enrolled employees. Organizations should expect to save $45 per employee per year under this offering. Quotes for this offering are provided free of charge by CBIZ to LSA members. Supporting this program by receiving a quote is yet another way to support LSA and your fellow LSA members. Please contact Zack Pace at CBIZ to learn more.

Contact: Zack Pace
Senior Vice President
CBIZ, Inc.
9755 Patuxent Woods Drive, 2nd Floor
Columbia, MD 21046
443-259-3240
zpace@cbiz.com

 

CDW

CDW

Provider of technology solutions:
Areas of focus include notebooks, desktops, printers, servers and storage, unified communications, security, wireless, power and cooling, networking, software licensing and mobility solutions.

Contact: Paul Arnpriester
National Business Development Manager
847-419-7339
paularn@cdw.com

 

 

Criterion Ventures

Consulting Services and Social Ventures
Criterion Ventures performs consulting services for clients and launches social ventures and initiates as entrepreneurs.

Contact: Joy Anderson, President and Founder
860-345-3520
Anderson@criterionventures.com

 

 Deffet Group

Deffet Group, Inc.

Executive Search:
Experienced throughout the aging services continuum with single
and multi-site providers.

Contact: G. Daniel Deffet
740-666-7600
info@deffetgroup.com

 

 Discovery Services logo

Discovery Services / Mosaic

Major Vehicle Discounts:
Discovery Services provides value to LSA non-profit organizations by facilitating group purchasing opportunities when ordering factory direct vehicles.

Contact: Mike McDonald
888-896-SAVE (7283)
mike.mcdonald@mosaicinfo.org

 

 Diversified Search

The Diversified Search Companies

Executive Search
Senior level management recruitment with expertise in a wide range of industries. 

Contact: Cynthia Barth
215-656-3578
Cynthia.Barth@divsearch.com

 

Ethics Point

Ethics Point

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management Services:
EthicsPoint provides a third-party administered system to provide anonymity for the person making a report and to help the organization manage the investigative process. 

Contact: Tim O’Keefe
866-297-0224x1105
tokeef@ethicspoint.com
Please reference that you are an LSA member


 

The Hollins Group

Executive Search:
Strength in recruiting diverse candidates. 

Contact: Lawrence Hollins,
312-606-8000,
lhollins@thehollinsgroup.com

 

 Immersion

Immersion

Data Breach Planning & Response
Immersion provides data breach planning and response services to organizations that hold, store, process or maintain personal, confidential and sensitive information. Immersion has assembled a comprehensive data breach team to assist organizations pre and post a data breach event.

Contact: Karen Kight
Email: Karen.kight@immersionltd.com
Phone: (814) 272-0574 ext. 3304
Fax: (814) 237-2610

Why should I care about data breaches?

"Lutheran Services in America presents
Data Breach A 'C' Level Issue"
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 Insight Public Sector

Insight

Technology products and services:
Insight partners with you to reach your IT goals with special not-for-profit discount pricing on leading technology products and services. 

Contact: Sashi Silbergleith
ssilberg@insight.com
800-467-4448 ext 5086

 

 

Isaacson Miller

Executive Search:
Experience in not-for-profit organizations and public agencies. 

Contact: Monroe “Bud” Moseley
617-262-6500
bmoseley@imsearch.com

 

ISM Real Results

Through the ISM/Real Results® Strategic Management System, the Institute for Strategic Management (ISM), provides social ministry organization management teams with an innovative approach to real-time strategic thinking, planning, and execution. By learning and applying the creative competency of structural thinking and mapping, leaders gain a new perspective on the relationship between mission and business, develop the ability to create alignment around prioritized areas of focus, and position the organization to achieve critical mission fulfillment, quality outcome, financial sustainability, and risk management performance outcomes.

Contact: Larry Webber
717-337-2057
lwebber@ismrealresults.com

 

Premiere Global Services

Premiere Global Services

Telephone and Web Conferencing Services:
Premiere Global provides a menu of very attractively priced enhanced conference calling and Web meeting services.

Contact: Karrie Brewer at 800-647-8235
Phone: 866-297-0224
Please reference that you are an LSA member

 

 Social Solutions Logo

Social Solutions

This company is the leading provider of performance management software for human services, connecting efforts to outcomes, people to social services, and service providers and communities to funders. The company's Efforts to Outcomes (ETOTM) software goes beyond case management and electronic medical records, enabling public, private, and nonprofit organizations, such as Harlem Children's Zone, Catholic Charities, YWCA, United Way, Goodwill, Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Social Service Administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and many others to collaborate, save time and improve service quality and effectiveness. Understanding that outcomes are not achieved without effort, Social Solutions has developed a market-leading software solution that makes it possible to relate service delivery efforts with their desired outcomes through a market-leading ability to execute.

 

Stevens Worldwide Van Lines

Stevens Worldwide Van Lines

The Executive Move Center at Stevens Worldwide Van Lines offers health and social ministry organizations across the country personalized services to save time and money on moving. LSA member and employees can utilize this preferred moving program by requesting a no-cost, no-obligation estimate. Stevens is the only van line endorsed by both the ELCA and LCMS.

Contact: Vicki Bierlein
Phone: 800-248-8313
Fax: 989-755-0511
E-mail: lsa@stevensworldwide.com

 

 

Unemployment Services Trust

Unemployment Services Trust

Services for nonprofits related to unemployment matters:
UST Members are usually eligible to save 50% off their unemployment taxes their first year of participation in the Trust. A typical member continues to save approximately 30%.

Contact: Cheryl Jones
877-265-2200
cjones@agia.com

 
 
 
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